The Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate dissolution of the Stan Dogbe-led seven-member presidential task force established to tackle Accra’s perennial flooding.
According to the Minority in Parliament, the June 29 flooding is the clearest evidence that the Stan Dogbe-led flood task force has failed.
They argued that Monday’s devastating floods demonstrate the committee’s failure to deliver meaningful interventions despite more than a year in operation.
The minority caucus also demanded a full parliamentary investigation into the task force’s work, chaired by Deputy Chief of Staff Stan Dogbe, following the flood that killed 12 people.
They also urged the government to implement urgent public health measures to avert disease outbreaks following the floods, which have claimed at least 12 lives.
Speaking to the media during a press conference, Afenyo-Markin stated, “Yesterday’s flooding is the clearest evidence that this task force produced no meaningful intervention on the ground. If serious drainage works, desilting or flood mitigation infrastructure had been undertaken, the impact of the rains, however heavy, would have been measurably reduced”.
“Instead, entire neighbourhoods went underwater, exposing the gap between government rhetoric and government delivery.”
“The Minority is calling on this House to establish a parliamentary committee specifically mandated to investigate the conduct of the flood preparedness task force and the relevant government ministries and agencies in the lead-up to this disaster,” he said.
“Those found responsible for negligence or dereliction of duty must be held accountable,” he stated.
“This is not a presumption of guilt. It is a basic standard of accountability that any institution facing serious questions over its conduct should observe so that the investigation can proceed without interference and so that those under scrutiny are not left to oversee the very response to a crisis their own inaction may have worsened,” he added.
Beyond demands for accountability, the Minority expressed concern over the heightened risk of disease outbreaks in communities affected by the flooding.
Meanwhile, Sammy Awuku, the Member of Parliament for Akuapem North, has told President John Dramani Mahama that Ghanaians elected him to fix the country’s problems and not tell them the problems, urging him to set aside if he is tired.
According to Sammy Awuku, this is not the time for settings, PR, bloggers, patrolling right and centre because the government want to score political points, arguing that Ghanaians need answers but not a government that will pretend to be solving a problem by just using a chopper to mock our misery.
He detailed that the Mahama administration had no excuse as the previous Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government had already undertaken comprehensive studies into Accra’s flood challenges and initiated several drainage projects.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on June 30, 2026, Sammy Awuku stated, “Under the previous Mahama government, of which my good friend and brother Felix Kwakye Ofosu was part, on a single night in June 2015, we lost over 150 lives. A single night. Then the Ghanaian people asked them to retire in 2016.
They spent eight years studying what the Akufo-Addo Bawumia government was initiating and implementing gradually.
President Mahama is one of the luckiest presidents; your predecessor left a roadmap of a comprehensive review of Accra flooding situations. Asenso Boakye’s statement clearly enumerates the number of projects initiated under the Akufo-Addo government.
Today, the NDC, which took pride, solace and comfort in politicising every flood situation in Ghana from 2017 to 2024, is today playing the role of Pope John Paul II and behaving as if Ghana only started in 2017,” he stated.
Sammy Awuku added, “Mr Speaker, behind the statistics we see on TV are human lives being lost; people have lost their livelihoods. Somebody might have taken a GH¢2,000 loan. Today, that money is gone.
Press conferences won’t desilt our gutters. Press conferences won’t solve the problems of our poor drainage system,” he said.
Sammi Awuku added that the flood crisis requires decisive leadership rather than public relations exercises, saying, “Mr Speaker, I clearly believe that this is the time we need leadership. Leadership is not a team sport. When you are elected to lead, you lead. This is not the time for settings, PR, bloggers, patrolling right and centre because government want to score political points; we need answers. We don’t need a government that will pretend to be solving a problem by just using a chopper to mock our misery.
“We don’t elect leaders to tell us our problems. We elect leaders to fix our problems,” he stated.
“If President Mahama is tired, he can leave the position for somebody who is ready to lead us to that promised land,” he added.
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Minority Leader calls for immediate dissolution of the 7-member Stan Dogbey committee on flood following Monday's flood that killed 12 people, as he demands a full-scale investigation into their work.#JoyNews pic.twitter.com/qMGW9gVuv7
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